Conceiving the Goddess
Conceiving the Goddess

Author: Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781925377309

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Conceiving the Goddess is an exploration of goddess cults in South Asia that embodies research on South Asian goddesses in various disciplines. The theme running through all the contributions, with their multiple approaches and points of view, is the concept of appropriation, whereby one religious group adopts a religious belief or practice not formerly its own. What is the motivation behind this? Are such actions attempts to dominate, or to resist the domination of others, or to adapt to changing social circumstances - or perhaps simply to enrich the religious experience of a group's members? In examining these questions, Conceiving the Goddess considers a range of settings: a Jain goddess lurking in a Brahminical temple, the fraught relationship between the humble Camār caste and the river goddess Gaṅgā, the mutual appropriation of disciple and goddess in the tantric exercises of Kashmiri Śaivism, and the alarming self-decapitation of the fierce goddess Chinnamastā

Law Of Adoption Minority Guardianship & Custody, 4th Edn.
Law Of Adoption Minority Guardianship & Custody, 4th Edn.

Author: Paras Diwan

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 948

ISBN-13: 9788175348202

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This new edition of `Law of Adoption, Minority, Guardianship and Custody analyses wide spectrum of the Indian personall law of adoption and guardianship and custody of Hindus, Muslims, Christians and Parsis with relevant references to the law of some other countries, particularly that of England. Statutory provisions and judicial decisions have been critically analysed. This work also states the law of inter-country adoptions as evolved by the Supreme Court and other connected matters including the U.N. Charter of Right of the child and some High Court Rules. A table of cases and subject index have also been provided. This work has been primarily written for practitioners of law and judges. It may also help scholars and law reformers.

The Hindi Public Sphere 1920–1940
The Hindi Public Sphere 1920–1940

Author: Francesca Orsini

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-04-29

Total Pages: 696

ISBN-13: 0199088802

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This book analyses how a language became the instrument with which the contours of a new nation were traced. Mapping the success of formalized Hindi in creating a regional public sphere in north India in the early twentieth century, the book explores the way many educated Indians, influenced by the British ideas and institutions, expressed interest in new concepts such as progress, unity, and a common cultural heritage. From the development of new codes and institutions to a language that helped to create space for argument and debate, the book gives an overview of the Hindi public sphere. Furthermore, it throws light on the work of Vasudha Dalmia about the nascent Hindi public sphere and brings to light how early-twentieth-century discourses on language, literature, gender, history, and politics form the core of the Hindi culture that exists today.